Example sentences of "[noun] be to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thanks be to the Blessed Virgin . |
| 2 | That at least was the rationale behind the nepotism , though in practice Nicolae Ceauşescu 's brothers were as little use to him in the final analysis as Napoleon 's brothers were to the beleaguered emperor . |
| 3 | In 1935 he succeeded William McDougall as Honorary secretary/treasure " It has often been said , " he wrote after fifteen years in office , " that the British Deaf and Dumb Association is to the deaf what a Trade Union is to the hearing workman , but it is more , it is a great BROTHERHOOD of mutual service , membership of which is open to the deaf and their hearing friends alike . " |
| 4 | As Jonathan Culler points out , the pun is to the synchronic dimension of language what etymology is to the diachronic dimension ( 1988:2 ) , and Julia plays on this parallel by confusing the two . |
| 5 | Napoleon III had no desire to emulate St Louis by sitting under an oak tree in Vincennes dispensing justice to all comers , but in a more up-to-date version he went one better by donating the entire area of the park ( which belonged to the Crown ) to the City of Paris so that it might become for the poorer section of the city what the Bois de Boulogne was to the rich . |
| 6 | References in brackets are to the relevant articles of the High Court and County Courts Jurisdiction Order 1991 ( SI No 724 ) . |
| 7 | Additional excursions are to the spectacular Krimml waterfalls and Chiemsee Castle . |
| 8 | To that end , a client 's financial obligations are to the Legal Aid Fund and the solicitor receives payment from the Fund . |
| 9 | The appeal was decided on the comparatively short point that although undue influence had been exercised by the husband upon the wife , it had not been shown that the transactions were to the manifest disadvantage of the wife , in which circumstances the court held that the wife could not be relieved from the effect of the charges on her home . |
| 10 | The herring was to the Eastern European Jew what potatoes were to the Irish , which is surprising , for the herring is a salt-water fish and in Russia and Poland one rarely got a glimpse of the sea . |
| 11 | With these qualities , the Mughal gardens dotted around the subcontinent are as alien to the Indian environment as the Brighton Pavilion is to the English south coast , or the Chinese Pagoda to Kew . |
| 12 | For the southern maps , of course , everything is reversed with respect to the northern hemisphere , and in Orion we find that Rigel is to the top left of the main pattern and Betelgeux to the lower right . |
| 13 | Their reference is to the middle-class norm of the discontented housewife . |
| 14 | The reference is to the three cantons ( Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden ) which originally got together to form the Swiss Confederation , along with the fourth that soon joined them , Luzern . |
| 15 | After a discussion she and Kim 's GP decided to refer Kim 's to the social services on 7 September . |
| 16 | The greatest benefit was to the local community as a whole : as Listers grew so the area climbed to prosperity from the depression that followed the collapse of the wool-cloth trade . |
| 17 | The majority cited was not in fact the Belorussian Communists , since Russians predominated : the reference was to the Belorussian ethnic majority in the republic 's population . |
| 18 | Stations were to the British what the motte and bailey and great stone keeps were to the Normans . |
| 19 | For the de Klerk government it 's a political as well as social problem and controlled black urbanisation is to the white right wing , a vivid example of the evils of political reform and will be a dominant issue in any election or referendum ; but there appears to be no alternative . |
| 20 | As a broad rule of thumb , the more similar the new job is to the old , the more likely the new job is to be suitable . |
| 21 | This official would be to public law rather what the Director of Public Prosecutions is to the criminal law . |
| 22 | In early times the fashion was to cut the two shields in half down the vertical axis ( the ‘ pale ’ line ) and join the dexter half of the husband 's to the sinister half of the wife 's , thus making in many cases a very strange ‘ design ’ indeed — such as the front half of a lion joined to the right-hand portion of a spread eagle . |
| 23 | Excursion and an interesting hotel : My most enjoyable rural excursion was to the beautiful ( inside and out ) Château of Dampierre , a ducal residence surrounded by lakes . |
| 24 | The room was to the left , fifty ch'i along the corridor , at the end of a cul-de-sac hewn out of the surrounding rock . |
| 25 | The process of psychology can become like a drug with the victim as addicted to their own helpless indulgence as the therapist is to the emotional charge that they get . |
| 26 | The best outing is to the neighbouring island of Lanzarote with its spectacular sandy beaches , extraordinary lunar volcanic landscapes , plunging cliffs , and white-washed villages . |
| 27 | Some animals move far more efficiently than others , and in general the race is to the big . |
| 28 | A bicycle is to the medieval streets of Nepal what a convertible is to a California freeway : appropriate technology . |
| 29 | ‘ Hold on — ’ Her back was to the car-park entrance . |
| 30 | He turned so that his back was to the sloping granite wall and pulled her up . |